TimMeade

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by TimMeade 11y ago
I little of both depending on the end use. Most of the times we use 3 PCIe raid controllers. Some cases 1 24 port controller works great. Also, we keep at least 2 or 3 in the hot swap mode for reliability.
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by TimMeade 11y ago
Yes we looked at them, but just too expensive for the large arrays we build. The 850's have been working well, but ever in the search for better.
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by TimMeade 11y ago
Interesting. Are these meant to be consumer only? I didn't really see anything about data center applications? We run 24 850 pros in raid configuration as base SAN. I wonder what these would spec out in a configuration like tha
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by TimMeade 11y ago
Not to be the naysayer on this but it is a very serious incursion on states rights. The legal consensus i'm hearing is that it will be overturned by the judicial system. Does the FCC have the right to tell a state or town what to do
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by TimMeade 11y ago
I've been writing since the late 80's professionally and had to look up Perforce. Mostly we used stuff we created until the late 90s and then it was Subversion. Once dragged to git about 10 years ago I would never look back.
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by TimMeade 11y ago
I guess it's a little bit of both. First PC was $3000 (80286-16) and had 1 mb ram. What is held over from the old days is efficient code. Not just big huge blocks that are unknowns. Ability to profile and REALLY debug, particular
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by TimMeade 11y ago
Oh i agree with both of these responses. It's not that google is a bad thing, personally i laugh at how we used to have a wall of books to run to. It's more of the 'take the first google hit' that i was referring to.
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by TimMeade 11y ago
As an upper 40ish something who has been coding since I was 10, this one made my day. So very very true.... but it's amazing how many 20 somethings are to narrow in their thinking or too lacking in medium to long term vision on proje
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by TimMeade 11y ago
We use papertrail and have been very pleased with it.
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by TimMeade 12y ago
Main reason is that GV is not secure according to the FCC ruling on prison pay phones. To be used with inmate calls a phone system has to have certain security items fulfilled and processed. GV numbers are generally blocked by the pay ph
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by TimMeade 12y ago
One of the best SCI-FI books ever. Many thought the movie couldn't be made because of all the licensing needed. The question is Spielberg the right one for this? For some reason I think not.
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by TimMeade 12y ago
First I want to put upfront that I work for Millicorp, who owns and operates ConsCallHome.com for the last 7 years, partially a competitor of Pigeon.ly We think it’s fantastic that Pigeon.ly is going to YC. Every company that strives to h
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Hackers Are Controling 17,000 Apple Computers(finance.yahoo.com)
12 points by TimMeade 12y ago|5 comments